“I'd have liked to have you for a sweetheart, or a wife, or my mother or my sister--anything a woman can be… — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
“The idea of you is a part of my mind; you influence my likes and dislikes, all my tastes, hundereds of times… — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
Every fine story must leave in the mind of the sensitive reader an intangible residuum of pleasure, a cadence, a quality of… — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
The idea of you is a part of my mind; you influence my likes and dislikes, all my tastes, hundreds of times… — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
“He felt as if a clear light broke upon his mind, and with it a conviction that, good was, after all, stronger… — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
“Antonia had always been one to leave images in the mind that did not fade - that grew stronger with time. In… — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
“Although I admired scholarship so much in Cleric, I was not deceived about myself; I knew that I should never be a… — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
“Do you know, Àntonia, since I've been away, I think of you more often than of any one else in this part… — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
“Women ought to be religious; faith was the natural fragrance of their minds. The more incredible the things they believed, the more… — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
“since I’ve been away, I think of you more often than of anyone else in this part of the world. I’d have… — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
“I don't myself think much of science as a phase of human development. It has given us a lot of ingenious toys;… — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
Of all the bewildering things about a new country, the absence of human landmarks is one of the most depressing and disheartening. — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
Success is less interesting than struggle. There is great pleasure in the effort. — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
“I only knew the schoolbooks said he "died in the wilderness, of a broken heart." "More than him has done that," said Antonia sadly,… — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
“Have the last word ma'm," he said cheerfully. "It's a lady's privilege.” — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
"More than him has done that," said Antonia sadly, and the girls murmured assent. — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
Nothing mattered ... but writing books, and living the kind of life that made it possible to write them. — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
“Money and office and success are the consolations of impotence. Fortune turns kind to such solid people and lets them suck their bone in… — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
But she still had that something which fires the imagination, could still stop one's breath for a moment by a look or gesture that… — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
“You remember how homesick I used to get, and what long talks we used to have coming from school? We've someway always felt alike… — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
“He placed this book in my grandmother's hands, looked at her entreatingly, and said, with an earnestness which I shall never forget, "Te-e-ach, te-e-ach… — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
The sincerity of feeling that is possible between a writer and a reader is one of the finest things I know. — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
